On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 17:53:14 -0400 Fred Smith fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote:
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 10:04:04PM +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
Hi everyone,
This just came to my attention --- I have CentOS 7 installed on one machine, and have configured elrepo and epel as additional repositories. When I turned on the yum-priorities package (and set up priorities in the order base&updates < elrepo < epel), it turns out that there are 65 conflicting packages between base and epel, and additional 5 between elrepo and epel (there are no conflicts between base and elrepo, as expected).
Somehow I thought (without going to verify) that epel should be before elrepo.
Just looked at my repo configs and I have epel priority at 20 and elrepo at 40.
The priority between elrepo and epel is usually a matter of personal preference, but either way epel is stepping over the base and updates repos, regardless of elrepo, as I explained:
# yum repolist --disablerepo=elrepo Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, priorities
[snip]
65 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
This shouldn't happen, and as far as I know, it is considered a Bad Thing(tm). Does anyone have any more detailed info regarding this?
Best, :-) Marko